The Torque package provides a queuing system for the sequential distribution of jobs on collaborating machines on any network. Alternatives to Torque are the Sun Grid Engine, Slurm (both also in Debian) or Condor. Torque was derived from PBS and is community-maintained with the help of the company Cluster Resources, with a very large user base.

The Debian package does not differ from upstream, with the exception that the server name is expected to be adjusted in /etc/torque/server_name and it defaults to 'torqueserver'. Also, what you may expect in /var/lib/torque (from a previous Ubuntu installation) resides in the Torque-typical /var/spool/torque.

The following script is expected to perform a sufficiently decent installation on a single host as a start.